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arXiv 2007.10392astro-ph.HEastro-ph.COastro-ph.GAhep-ph
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根据运动学约束的总体模型在伽马射线中搜索暗物质晕下的统计:费米-LAT类望远镜

Statistics for dark matter subhalo searches in gamma rays from a kinematically constrained population model: Fermi-LAT-like telescopes

Gaétan Facchinetti, Julien Lavalle, Martin Stref

摘要:

冷的暗物质暗晕预计会大量存在于星系中。如果暗物质自我湮灭,这些物体就成为间接搜索的主要目标,特别是用伽马射线望远镜。顺便说一句,费米-LAT目录已经包含了许多可能与subhalos有关的未知来源。在本文中,我们确定的概率subhalos被确定为γ射线点状源从它们的预测分布特性。我们使用半分析模型的银河系subhalo人口,这与宇宙学模拟,可以完全符合目前的运动学约束在银河系中,并没有分辨率限制。该模型采用了潮汐剥离的影响,从一个现实的分布在银河系中的重子。同样的重子分布也贡献了一个弥散的伽马射线前景,它与光滑的暗物质和未分辨的暗晕产生的前景相加,而这在暗晕搜索中常常被忽视。这种配置意味着点状subhalo信号和弥漫的背景之间的相关性。基于这种半解析建模,我们生成模拟伽马射线数据假设一个理想化的望远镜类似费米-LAT和执行的可能性分析,以估计当前和未来的敏感性,在相关的参数空间中的subhalos。我们发现了一些可检测的subhalos的顺序${\cal O}(<1)$乐观的模型参数和WIMP质量为100 GeV,最大化的核心主机晕。这几乎不支持目前对几个费米不明来源的解释。我们还发现,它更有可能检测到光滑的星系晕本身subhalos之前,应该暗物质在GeV-TeV的质量范围内通过$s$波过程的自我湮灭。

英文摘要:

Cold dark matter subhalos are expected to populate galaxies in numbers. If dark matter self-annihilates, these objects turn into prime targets for indirect searches, in particular with gamma-ray telescopes. Incidentally, the Fermi-LAT catalog already contains many unidentified sources that might be associated with subhalos. In this paper, we determine the probability for subhalos to be identified as gamma-ray pointlike sources from their predicted distribution properties. We use a semi-analytical model for the Galactic subhalo population, which, in contrast to cosmological simulations, can be made fully consistent with current kinematic constraints in the Milky Way and has no resolution limit. The model incorporates tidal stripping effects from a realistic distribution of baryons in the Milky Way. The same baryonic distribution contributes a diffuse gamma-ray foreground which adds up to that, often neglected in subhalo searches, generated by the smooth dark matter and the unresolved subhalos. This configuration implies a correlation between pointlike subhalo signals and diffuse background. Based on this semi-analytical modeling, we generate mock gamma-ray data assuming an idealized telescope resembling Fermi-LAT and perform a likelihood analysis to estimate the current and future sensitivity to subhalos in the relevant parameter space. We find a number of detectable subhalos of order ${\cal O}(<1)$ for optimistic model parameters and a WIMP mass of 100~GeV, maximized for a cored host halo. This barely provides support to the current interpretation of several Fermi unidentified sources as subhalos. We also find it more likely to detect the smooth Galactic halo itself before subhalos, should dark matter in the GeV-TeV mass range self-annihilate through $s$-wave processes.

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